Southern Ocean Science

Funding

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USF College of Marine Science (USF CMS) funding for research in the Southern Ocean

Current ($1,411,627)
USF Investigators Funding Agency Title Start Date & Length Total Amount
Kristen Buck (PI) NSF Collaborative Research: Investigating iron-binding ligands in Southern Ocean diatom communities: The role of diatom-bacteria associations

July 2015

3 years

$276,593
Don Chambers (PI) NASA Quantifying Decadal Transport Variations of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation using GRACE and GRACE Follow-on Observations

March 2016

4 years

$494,000
Brad Rosenheim (PI) NSF Collaborative Research: Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA): Integrated Study of Carbon Cycling in Hydrologically-active Subglacial Environments

September 2015 

5 years (1 NCE)

$395,644

Brad Rosenheim (PI) 

Amelia Shevenell (PI)

NSF Collaborative Research: Time Matters – A Comparison of Diatom 14C and Thermochemical 14C Dating Methods in Sediment Records of Ice Retreat from the East and West Antarctic Margins

March 2017 

3 years

$488,390
Don Chambers (PI) NOAA Analysis of kinetic energy and structure functions from along-track and crossover altimeter data

June 2017 

4 years

$597,000
Past – $2,015,874
USF Investigators Funding Agency Title Start Date & Length Total Amount
Amelia Shevenell (PI) NSF Totten Glacier System and the Marine Record of Cyrosphere-Ocean Dynamics 2013-2016 $166,285
Kristen Buck (PI) NSF Collaborative Research: Investigating iron-binding ligands in Southern Ocean diatom communities: The role of diatom-bacteria associations

August, 2012

4 years

$153,965
Amelia Shevenell (PI) NSF Late Quaternary Evolution of the Lambert Glacier/Amery Ice Shelf System, Prydz Bay, Antarctica

March 2013

3 years

$267,712
Kendra Daly NSF Benthic-pelagic coupling in an intact ecosystem: The role of top predators in McMurdo Sound

June 2011

4 years

$374,459
Don Chambers (PI) NASA Investigating low-frequency barotropic transport fluctuations in the Southern Ocean, North Pacific, and Atlantic using GRACE

August 2012

4 years

$349,000
Don Chambers (PI) NASA

Improved Estimates of Southern Ocean Transport by Combining Satellite Altimetry and Temperature /Salinity Profile Data

March 2013

4 years

$349,000
Don Chambers (PI) NASA An Earth System Data Record of Earth’s Surface Mass Variations from GRACE, Geodetic Satellites, and GPS

June 2013

5 years

$251,000